Truth cannot be studied, it can only be experienced

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE…

Many people today are stressed and anxious, feeling unfulfilled by their work and relationships. In 3 Steps to Awakening. Osho describes with immense clarity how to bring transforming meaningfulness into day-to-day life. With three simple steps, he show the way to awaken and expand consciousness to the full, and live of gratefulness and bliss.
“There are only three steps: freedom of consciousness, simplicity of mind, and emptiness of mind. One who sharpens his freedom, simplicity, and emptiness, will attain enlightenment.”

3 Steps to Awakening, nieuw in 2016

“3 Steps to Awakening” is een boek dat in 2016 geheel nieuw uitgebracht is. Het is onlangs vanuit het Hindi in het Engels vertaald en betreft een van de vroege werken van Osho die nu voor het eerst voor een groter publiek toegankelijk is.
“Er zijn maar drie stappen: vrijheid van bewustzijn, eenvoud van denken en een lege mind. Degene die zijn vrijheid aanscherpt, zijn eenvoud en zijn leegte, zal verlichting bereiken.”
Veel mensen zijn tegenwoordig gestrest en angstig en ze voelen zich niet vervuld door het werk wat ze doen en in hun relaties. In “3 Steps to Awakening” beschrijft Osho met ongekende helderheid hoe er een transformerende zinvolheid in het leven van alledag gebracht kan worden. In drie simpele stappen toont hij de weg naar het ontwaken en het verruimen van je bewustzijn, tot in alle volledigheid, en naar een leven leiden in dankbaarheid en geluk.
In dit boek komt opnieuw duidelijk naar voren wat de rode draad is die door al Osho’s toespraken loopt. Deze laat zich omschrijven als de tijdloze wijsheid van alle voorgaande eeuwen gekoppeld aan het hoogste potentieel van de hedendaagse wetenschap en de moderne technologie en die van de toekomst“There are only three steps: freedom of consciousness, simplicity of mind, and emptiness of mind.“
Het boek 3 Steps to Awakening is verkrijgbaar bij de boekhandel

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? 3 Steps to Awakening

There is an increasing interest in understanding ourselves. Almost a century after Sigmund Freund, the basic understanding that there is a psychologically driven dimension to the mind is now common – and the area of Self-Development is moving more and more into the mainstream.
Most of us have a basic knowledge and awareness of “mind issues,” and yet to deal with them is not an easy task.Going beyond psychology and therapy, Osho presents a radically different and challenging approach to our multiple “personality disorders.” He completely drops the concept that something is wrong, and proposes that waking up from our illusions is the solution. He takes us through three steps on the path to awakening, steps to help us to get out of our conditioning, our limitations and frustrations, and to figure out who we really are.
Waking up or awakening means that the dream is over – the dream of unconsciousness we all spend most of our lives in that so often brings a life of tensions, anguish, feeling unfulfilled and running after illusions that are just substitutes for what we are really looking for.
“There are only three steps: freedom of consciousness, simplicity of mind, and emptiness of mind.“
Inside every person, says Osho, are at least three personalities. One is what you really are, about which you know almost nothing. The second is what you think you are. The third is what you want to project to other people that you are.
Before we can come to know ourselves, we have to become naked; we have to drop all our clothes. We not only wear clothes on the outside, we also wear clothes on the inside, too, in the mind.We are not only afraid to be naked on the outside, we are also very afraid to be naked on the inside. We are very afraid to see ourselves naked, to see what we really are. We avoid to see what we are, otherwise we will be afraid of ourselves. So we put on many faces and decorate ourselves in many ways; we make many arrangements to avoid seeing the real inner self.
This little book is actually a big book, containing the essence of Osho’s insights into the mind and inner psychology from an early period of his public life and teachings.

Impression of “3 Steps to Awakening”

Waking up or awakening means that the dream is over – whatever was known up to now remains no longer. So it is difficult to say what awakening means, because your language is sleep. At present, whatever can be told to you or whatever can be understood by will be in the language of the dream. If say that you will get happiness then you will think of the happiness which you have known in the dream. If I say that you will not get misery, then you will think of the same misery which you have known in the dream.
If You think, you will not attain. That is why all the buddhas have kept quiet. Whenever someone asked what will happen after the awaking they just kept quiet. They said. “Wake up and see,” because this is beyond the language which you know, or this is beyond your understanding which you have through language. Neither your happiness nor your misery is there. Neither your peace nor your restlessness is there. Neither your satisfaction nor your dissatisfaction _ whatever you have known up to now is no there. The scriptures you have knows up to now are also not there. The images of the divine which were made by you are also not there. Your notions about heaven and hell are also not there. When you are not there, your notions also will not be there.
There is something which cannot be described, which cannot to defined – you can call it Brahman, Vishnupad, jinpad or buddhahood, but even by these words nothing can be known. If you wake up, only then can you know. A dumb man cannot describe the taste of sugar, but he can enjoy it.
What will happen after awakening? You will taste the divine, the taste which you have been trying to get all these past lives but could not get – you missed it always. It just cannot be described. If you are bored with the way you have been living, then wake up. But if you have not even a little bit of interest in it yet, then just turn over and go to sleep again.
But you will have to wake up one day. Sleep cannot be eternal, and sleep cannot be the ultimate rest, and darkness cannot be the experience of the ultimate truth sooner or later you will have to get up – it all depends on you. But whenever you awaken you will repent for not having woken up earlier – it just meant spreading out your hand – it was so near.